O-T Elders who were alive during the Apollo 11 mission

I was a very little kid. We had just moved into our new house. I'll always associate the moon landing with the smell of fresh paint.

I don't remember 11 (I was just 2) but remember watching 15. It was a great time to be a kid, "space" was everywhere and we all wanted to be astronauts.

I watched and read everything I could about the Space Progams. Gemini,Apollo,etc. The whole nation was watching. We stayed up all night to watch Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. It was exciting times. I just finished reading an account of Apollo 11. I was 12 years old for Apollo 11.

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Gibsons Discount Center

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We had one of those. I got all my model airplanes there.

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Only 4 tv channels back then and that’s if you had enough alum foil on the antenna.

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Damn. Look at Mr. Fancy here with his 4 channels. We only had 3. And one of them was usually fuzzy as hell.

I had just turned 3. Watching it on tv is one of my earliest memories.

I remember watching it. It was a huge deal the week before and after. In those turbulent times, it was the biggest thing that brought the country together with pride.

Watched it in the basement, it was late at night.

Fairview Heights, Illinois.

Summer between 2nd & 3rd Grade, I’d not yet found my “special purpose” but I did realize already that I wanted to check under Natalie Wood’s hood.

It was a huge deal, I was 14, our living room looked just like the scene in the Apollo 13 movie with Tom Hanks. But at our house here were very few men present, like my Dad most worked on the program and were at work during the landing.

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Y’all didn’t have the UHF channel 26 ?

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26 was hit or miss depending on weather.